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What Matters Most On Monday, July 18, 2022

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IDF chief Aviv Kohavi speaks at a ceremony marking the change of the Home Front Command's chief, July 17, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

After Khamenei aide says Iran has tech ability to build bomb

IDF chief: ‘Diplomacy can fail,’ attack on Iran ‘at the center’ of IDF preparations

By Emanuel Fabian

Aviv Kohavi acknowledges ‘possibility’ IDF will need to strike Iranian nuke facilities, says Israel has ‘moral obligation’ to be ready with military response

Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022. (Marc Israel Sellem/ POOL)

Lapid: Israel, US don’t ‘necessarily agree’ on need for military threat against Iran

Likud activist Rami Ben-Yehuda. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Senior Likud MKs hail party activist who’s called to execute right-wing ‘traitors’

Rami Ben-Yehuda called Yamina’s Ayelet Shaked an ‘escort for the Palestinians,’ urged an MK to go to the ‘gas chambers’; operative was praised at event near Jerusalem last week

Screen capture of a golden medallion featuring Likud party leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu. (Only Bibi)

Likud activists slammed for cult worship over Netanyahu ‘medallion of loyalty’

By Stuart Winer

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu during an inauguration ceremony of a new neighborhood in Beit El, in the West Bank, July 12, 2022. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Ahead of primary, Likud battle over reserved spots for newbies heats up

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

MK Itamar Ben Gvir, left, speaks during a press conference ahead of the upcoming elections, in Jerusalem, July 11, 2022; MK Bezalel Smotrich, right, leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir threatens to run solo if Smotrich keeps ignoring him

By Tobias Siegal

Poll shows Religious Zionism would be strengthened under leadership of Kahanist Ben Gvir, who says he’s willing to compromise for sake of ‘unity’

MK Itamar Ben Gvir, left, speaks during a press conference ahead of the upcoming elections, in Jerusalem, July 11, 2022; MK Bezalel Smotrich, right, leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll shows Religious Zionism party would soar if headed by Ben-Gvir

By Tobias Siegal

US President Joe Biden poses for a picture with US athletes competing in the Maccabiah Games at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on July 14, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 18 – Political footballs: 2022 Maccabiah Games, Beitar Jerusalem

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

Live updates (closed)

Exclusive: Lapid calls US boy who had Western Wall bar mitzvah disrupted by zealots

Prime Minister tells Seth Mann, of Las Vegas, that protests ‘did not represent the State of Israel, the people of Israel, or the government of Israel’

6:32 pm

Exclusive: Lapid calls US boy who had Western Wall bar mitzvah disrupted by zealots
6:25 pm

Fauci expects to retire by end of Biden's current term
6:15 pm

In first, Israeli reporter visits Muslim holy city of Mecca

Top aide to Khamenei boasts Iran has technical ability to manufacture nuclear bomb

Kamal Kharazi, head of Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, says country choosing not to make weapon, warns any attack from neighboring countries will trigger reprisal at Israel

Screen capture from video of Kamal Kharazi, the head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, during an interview with Al-Jazeera, February 2019. (YouTube)

Illustrative: Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, June 29, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

AnalysisSyria to top agenda as Iranian, Russian and Turkish leaders head to Tehran meeting

By Karim Abou Merhi

Iranian worshippers take part in the morning prayer ceremony for Eid al-Adha, celebrated by Muslims worldwide, at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Mosalla mosque, on July 10, 2022. (AFP)

Iran pardons, commutes sentences for 2,200 convicts to mark Muslim holidays

By AFP

Illustrative image: A woman received a coronavirus vaccine in Petah Tikva, Israel, Tuesday, January 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Moderna’s new variant-busting COVID vaccine starting trial in Israel

By Nathan Jeffay

Study will assess how well special shot built to be Omicron-proof protects against infection; expert says Israel helping lead way in ‘the future of the fight against the pandemic’

A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pennsylvania, December 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

UK study: Omicron subvariant 4 times more resistant to vaccines

By Michael Horovitz and AP

Illustrative: Travelers sit for COVID testing at Ben Gurion Airport on March 8, 2021, upon their arrival from New York. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Three cases of new Omicron subvariant detected in Israel, says Health Ministry

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A massive fireball is seen following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza city on July 16, 2022. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Gaza airstrike significantly sets back Hamas rocket production, says IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

16 tons of explosives destroyed when jets dropped bunker-busting bombs on subterranean facility on Saturday in response to rocket fire; IDF: Drones also manufactured at site

An Iron Dome battery fires an interceptor missile during a trial on the US military’s White Sands test range in New Mexico in an image published on July 18, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

US Marines successfully test air defense system using Iron Dome launcher, missiles

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers statements to the media with the US president after their meeting in the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank on July 15, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Abbas thanks Saudi royals for backing Palestinian cause at Jeddah summit with Biden

PA president writes to king and crown prince expressing gratitude for supporting a 2-state solution with East Jerusalem as capital of a future Palestinian state

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)

Analysis

Biden visit proves a far cry from Israel’s fanciful expectations

After hyping the president’s trip, Jerusalem plays host to the first leg of a markedly low-stakes affair that left only MBS as a clear winner

US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One before departing from King Abdulaziz International Airport, wrapping up his first Middle East tour as president, in the Saudi Arabia city of Jeddah, July 16, 2022, (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

AnalysisBiden wraps up Mideast tour without any significant diplomatic breakthroughs

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermontt, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 16, 2022. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Sanders slams Biden for visiting Saudi Arabia despite its human rights record

A police officer givers water to a British soldier wearing a traditional bearskin hat, on guard duty outside Buckingham Palace, during hot weather in London, July 18, 2022 (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK braces for record temperatures as wildfires sweep across southwest Europe

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Britain issues first-ever ‘red warning’ of extreme heat; some hospitals cancel surgeries, many schools to shut; blazes in France, Greece, Portugal, Spain force thousands to flee

Boats in Brenets Lake (Lac des Brenets), part of the Doubs River, which has dried up due to a combination of factors, including geological faults that drain the river, decreased rainfall and heat waves. It acts as a natural border between eastern France and western Switzerland, July 18, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Nearly half of EU territory at risk of drought as heatwave strikes Europe

By AFP

The sun over forests near Jerusalem on September 2, 2021. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Israel Meteorological Service to get ‘supercomputer’ to model climate change effects

Steven E. Zipperstein

J Street’s reaction to Lapid as prime minister: Crickets

Israel finally has a moderate centrist at the helm who supports the two-state solution. Why isn’t the progressive US Jewish organization applauding?

Elchanan Poupko

Postmortem IDF IVF doesn’t really create ’orphans’

Naysayers decry using the sperm of a fallen soldier in the hope of a child or grandchild, but who are they to deny a family its next generation?!

Tair Rada (Screenshot)

Hair found at scene of girl’s murder could match partner of defense-accused woman

Tair Rada’s case has gripped Israel, due to brutality of her murder and retrial of Roman Zadorov, initially convicted and serving prison time for crime

(L) Screen capture from video of Walaa Khalilah at Haifa District Court, July 18, 2022. (Channel 12) and (R) Sapir Nachum

Man indicted for murder, kidnap of ex-partner after she dropped kid at daycare

Alon Kastiel at the Tel Aviv District court on July 23, 2018. (Flash90)

Serial sex offender nightclub owner to be released from prison early, court rules

Glowing corals. (Tel Aviv University)

Deep sea corals glow in the dark to lure prey, Israeli researchers find

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks with the media, as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Top EU diplomat delaying key Israel meeting over Abu Akleh killing – official

By Lazar Berman

Josep Borrell balked at advancing first Association Council since 2012 after journalist shot in disputed circumstances in Jenin, announcement of new settlement building

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures while addressing a press conference with Netherland's Prime Minister, following talks in Kyiv on July 11, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Ukraine’s Zelensky fires top security chief and prosecutor

Ukrainian president cites hundreds of criminal proceedings into treason and collaboration in prosecutor’s office, state security service, other government departments

Smoke rises in the air after shelling in Odesa, Ukraine, July 16, 2022. (AP Photo/ Nina Lyashonok)

Russia strikes industrial facilities in southern Ukraine, expands gains in the east

By HANNA ARHIROVA and Cara Anna

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan sits during a meeting with US President Joe Biden (unseen) July 16, 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Evan Vucci/AP)

UAE president arrives in France with energy deals top of the agenda

By AFP

Emergency personnel gather after a deadly shooting Sunday, July 17, 2022, at the Greenwood Park Mall, in Greenwood, Ind. (Kelly Wilkinson/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

3 dead in Indiana mall in latest US mass shooting; armed civilian kills gunman

By AP

Schools, churches, grocery stores, and a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois, have all become killing grounds in recent months

Law enforcement personnel stand outside Robb Elementary School following a shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Report finds ‘systemic failures’ in police response to Uvalde school shooting

By Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber

Crime scene tape surrounds Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Amid increase in violence, US houses of worship bolster security measures

By DEEPA BHARATH and LUIS ANDRES HENAO

Moshe 'MB' Klyman, right, with his friend Naftali Horowitz in Montreal during the 2018 Concordia Cup tournament. (Courtesy)

Maccabiah games'Definitely not your stereotypical Modern Orthodox guy'

Orthodox wrestler from Teaneck takes to mat in Beersheba for 21st Maccabiah Games

By Charlie Summers

Moshe ‘MB’ Klyman was the only Sabbath observant athlete in his hotel when he last wrestled for Canada at the ‘Jewish Olympics’; this year he’s aiming to take gold for Team USA

It feels like Napa, or Bordeaux, at Domaine du Castel, one of Israel's first boutique wineries, in the Judean Hills, the country's first official wine appellation. (Courtesy: Elad Barmi)

It’s a quick ride from Bordeaux red to sparkling Champagne in the Judean Hills

By Jessica Steinberg

Israel’s Judean Hills and Foothills becomes first appellation of origin for the region, a boon for local wineries and tourism

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Screen capture from video of the funeral of police Master Sergeant Barak Meshulam, who was fatally run over by Palestinian teen driving a stolen car, July 17, 2022. (Twitter)

Cop killed in car ramming laid to rest; widow berates minister over open-fire rules

A bus carrying 40 elderly passangers tipped on its side after driving off the road near Anava Interchange, July 18, 2022. (Israel Police)

38 lightly injured when bus comes off highway near Jerusalem, tips sideways in ditch

Image of the Tel Gezer National Park, burnt by fires that broke out on July 4, 2022. (Roy Strauss/Nature and Parks Authority)

Government approves millions to restore archaeological site scorched by blaze

By Michael Horovitz

A young woman walks in front of residential towers in Tel Aviv's Sarona neighborhood in Tel Aviv, August 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Better mortgage conditions may help more homebuyers get a leg up, experts say

By Danielle Nagler

In this October 2, 2019, photo, a Turkish police officer walks past a picture of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

US rejects claim by UAE that arrest of Khashoggi’s former lawyer was coordinated

By AP

Pro-democracy activists flash a three-fingered symbol or resistance during a rally in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 24, 2021. (Sakchai Lalit/AP)

Thai pro-democracy activists hit with Israeli NSO Group’s spyware, researchers say

By AP and ToI Staff

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters after departing federal court on November 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Ex-Trump aide Bannon set to go on trial for refusing to cooperate with Jan. 6 panel

Yamina MK Matan Kahana crosses the busy Ayalon North highway to rescue a kitten, July 18, 2022. (Screenshot)

Nine livesMK Kahana stops traffic to rescue kitten, then needs tetanus shot

Screen capture of the Health Ministry website, July 17, 2022. (Health Ministry)

Cyberattack on Health Ministry website blocks overseas access

Director Roman Polanski appears at an international film festival, where he promoted his film, 'Based on a True Story,' in Krakow, Poland on May 2, 2018. (AP Photo/File)

Polanski fled US when judge planned to renege on teen sex assault case deal – lawyer

By brian melley

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