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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 19, 2022

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz (right) Prime Minister Yair Lapid (center) and Northern Command chief Amir Baram on the Lebanese border, near the coast, on July 19, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

Lapid, Gantz warn that Hezbollah drones, threats could lead region to ‘escalation’

By Emanuel Fabian

During tour of IDF’s Northern Command, premier says Israel seeks Lebanon as ‘stable neighbor,’ but Iran-backed group’s actions are ‘unacceptable’; vows to act against all threats

IDF downs drone that enters Israeli airspace from Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Hezbollah demands return of border rail tunnel in likely bid to torpedo Israel talks

On anniversary of AMIA and Burgas bombings, US urges global front against Hezbollah

Seth Mann, left, reads from a Torah scroll during his bar mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall's egalitarian section on June 30, 2022. (Courtesy/Mann family)

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Lapid phones American boy whose Western Wall bar mitzvah was overrun by zealots

By Judah Ari Gross

PM tells Seth Mann that the violent protests against his ceremony were ‘outrageous’ and didn’t represent Israel; family says they were encouraged by the premier’s call

A man holds up his cellular phone certificating that it is 'kosher' at the entrance to an ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem on May 6, 2020. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

‘Kosher’ phone freedom policy changes are hard to swallow for ultra-Orthodox rabbis

By Eetta Prince-Gibson

Disgraced rabbi Baruch Lanner, who was convicted of sexually assaulting students, in an undated photograph. (LinkedIn)

Interior Ministry: US rabbi convicted of sexual assault won’t receive citizenship

By Judah Ari Gross

Baruch Lanner, who was convicted for abusing pupils, will be allowed to remain in Israel for the next year under a temporary residence visa

Baruch Lanner's mugshot and the exterior of the Interior Ministry building in Jerusalem. (Public domain; Flash90)

US Orthodox rabbis criticize Israel granting residency to convicted sex offender

By Judah Ari Gross

Convicted sex offender Alon Kastiel seen after his release from Hermon Prison in the northern Israel, July 18, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Serial sex offender Alon Kastiel released from prison after court rejects appeal

Reporter's notebook

In Jeddah, where Israel still taboo, path to normalization feels anything but direct

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- It was well after 11 p.m. on Friday night in the coastal Saudi city of Jeddah, and people of all ages still peppered the sidewalks of Palestine Street. Some were heading west through the muggy heat toward the boardwalk to catch the slightly cooler breeze coming in off the Red Sea. Families and others took photos in... Continue Reading

Visitors watch the landmark King Fahd's Fountain in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Jan. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a conference in Modi'in, June 12, 2022. (Flash90)

Kohavi lands in Morocco for first official trip by Israeli military chief

By Emanuel Fabian

Network, reporter defend visit, apologize if anyone offended

Israeli TV network scolded by Saudis, Israelis for defying Mecca ban on non-Muslims

Israel's Channel 13 news is facing backlash after broadcasting footage of its reporter visiting the holy Muslim city of Mecca, defying a longtime ban by Saudi authorities on the entrance of all non-Muslims. On Monday evening, the news outlet aired a TV report by its world news editor,... Continue Reading

Channel 13's Gil Tamary in Mecca, Saudi Arabia with the Grand Mosque in the background from footage broadcast on July 18, 2022. (Screen capture/ Channel 13)

Channel 13's Gil Tamary in Mecca, Saudi Arabia with the Grand Mosque in the background from footage broadcast on July 18, 2022. (Screen capture/ Channel 13)

In apparent first, Israeli journalist visits Muslim holy city of Mecca

Meretz chair Zehava Galon and Labor MKs Erel Margalit and Merav Michaeli vote in the Knesset's Finance Committee on June 18, 2013. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Fresh off announcing political comeback, Galon eyes Meretz-Labor merger

Former head of left-wing party vying to return to helm says joint slate would ‘maximize’ factions’ power day after Labor head, who aims to run independently, won leadership primary

8:06 pm

'Unprecedented' crowding at Allenby crossing due to Israeli restrictions on Palestinian entry
8:01 pm

Transportation ministry rolls out 'Zahav-Kav' card granting free public transit to the elderly
7:54 pm

Israeli Navy chief hosts Greek counterpart to discuss boosting cooperation

The Tel Aviv municipality building lit up with the word "peace" in Arabic, which alternated with Hebrew and English, September 15, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Reformers want schools to stop churning out Arabic students who can’t speak Arabic

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

With a focus on formal rather than conversational Arabic, Israel’s high schools are ‘teaching a living language as if it were dead,’ says one critic pushing for changes

Not everyone deserves to return: The case of Baruch Lanner

Sex criminals, even those who have served their time, must not see Israel as a safe harbor. Their victims should not have to fear running into them while visiting Israel

Benjamin Resnick

The James Webb Telescope looks at the universe through the eyes of God

I don’t know what to make of the fact that I was forged in starlight, that every bit of me has existed and will exist for all time, but I am filled with wonder

America’s Karaite Court

Why don’t Jews take ’an eye for an eye,’ and why is ’the rebellious child’ not stoned to death? If only the US Supreme Court knew

Bishara A. Bahbah

Biden leaves Palestinians – and Israelis – without hope for peace

The president did nothing to counter the perception of the US as Israel’s partner in its occupation of Palestinian lands

Settler activists take part in a protest march against then-US president Donald Trump's 'Deal of the Century' and an attempt to establish a new settlement called 'Maalot Halhul' near Hebron, June 30, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Gantz, IDF warn settler activists against ‘illegal’ bid to form West Bank outposts

By Jeremy Sharon

Defense minister says there will be ‘strict enforcement’ against plan by Nachala Settlement Movement to send out hundreds of activists to establish 3 new outposts on Wednesday

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (right) meets with Public Security Minister Omer Barlev at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 17, 2022. (Courtesy)

Lapid, Barlev reject criticism of open-fire policy, a day after officer’s death

A tourist uses a fan whilst standing in the hot sun whilst waiting to watch the Changing of the Guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace, during hot weather in London, July 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK records its highest-ever temperature, as heatwave batters Europe

By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless

Heat measured at 39.1 degrees Celsius; at least five people drown while trying to cool off; wildfires continue to spread in France

Illustrative: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres makes a statement outside the Security Council at UN headquarters, March 14, 2022. (Richard Drew/AP)

UN chief warns humanity choosing ‘collective suicide’ with climate change inaction

By AP and ToI Staff

In this Feb. 1, 2020, file photo, fire burns in the grass near Bumbalong, south of the Australian capital, Canberra. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Australia vows new environmental laws as 5-year report tallies lost land, species

Lapid: Decision 'evidence of Israel's diplomatic power'

EU announces resumption of suspended dialogue forum with Israel

By Lazar Berman

The European Union Foreign Affairs Council has decided to resume the Association Council meetings with Israel, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced on Monday. The Association Council is a meeting that is meant to occur annually between Israel and the EU to cover matters of mutual concern. The last time the two sides met... Continue Reading

European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell announces the resumption of the Association Council with Israel, July 18, 2022. (screenshot)

Labor leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli votes via phone in Labor's leadership primaries, at primary headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 18, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Interview

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Merav Michaeli, recapturing Labor leadership, vows to tackle cost of living

Center-left party leader lays out social democratic vision, says her policies, including free education and healthcare, will address capitalist ills

Labor leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli at Labor's leadership primaries headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 18, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Michaeli clinches second elected term as Labor leader, a first in party’s history

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

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

Unchallenged Netanyahu cements Likud chairmanship; leadership primary formally nixed

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

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

Israeli religious singer’s rebuff of Biden handshake gets presidential kosher stamp

US Ambassador Nides posts video to Yuval Dayan saying president greatly appreciated both her performance and her adherence to religious values

Maayan Cohen (courtesy of Maayan Cohen)

17-year-old Israeli’s mental health ‘first aid’ course draws thousands

By Nathan Jeffay

Maayan Cohen finished regular first aid training, but noticed there wasn’t an easily accessible equivalent for psychological health

Jerusalemites wearing face masks walk in the city center in February 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

COVID czar cautiously optimistic sixth wave will recede soon

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. A leading doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as 'a random event' that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/ CDC via AP, File)

Israel signs deal to procure 10,000 monkeypox vaccines

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, speaks during his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi sits at right, unseen, in Tehran, Iran, July 19, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei warns Erdogan against Syria offensive, as Turkish leader set to meet Putin

By AFP

Ankara has weighed launching a campaign in northern Syria to create a ‘safe zone’ that would drive Kurdish militants back; Iran says ‘attack in Syria will also benefit terrorists’

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, on June 29, 2022. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin heads to Iran for talks with Raisi and Erdogan, in shadow of Ukraine war

By Nasser Karimi and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Olena Zelenska, right, spouse of Ukrainian's President Volodymyr Zelensky, walks out of the US State Department, July 18, 2022 in Washington, after meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a closed-to-press meeting. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Ukrainian first lady arrives in US for high-profile meetings

By Ellen Knickmeyer

Bronze medalist Lonah Chemtai Salpeter of Israel celebrates after crossing the finish line in the women's marathon final, during the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon on July 18, 2022. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Chemtai Salpeter wins first marathon bronze for Israel at World Championships

By ToI Staff and AP

Kenyan-born runner achieves country’s best-ever result at the championships, is only third Israeli to win medal at competition

Illustrative. An IQM Quantum Computer (Business Wire via AP)

Israel to establish quantum computing R&D center, build quantum computer

By Ricky Ben-David

Startup Quantum Machines to head new project together with consortium of Israeli and foreign quantum tech companies

Illustrative. A depiction of SolarEdge's technology. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Israeli-American energy tech firm SolarEdge inks investment deal with Saudi group

By Ricky Ben-David

Dr. Howard Tucker holds the Guiness World Records certificate recognizing him as the oldest active physician in the United States. (Courtesy Tucker/ via JTA)

'As long as people accept me, I’ll continue to practice'

At 100, a Jewish doctor in Cleveland is the world’s oldest practicing physician

By Kristen Mott

Dr. Howard Tucker earned the Guinness World Record distinction last year; after passing US bar exam at age 67 and while he still teaches medical residents, he’s got big plans ahead

More Headlines

Northern District police chief Shimon Lavi seen at the Lag Baomer celebrations, at Mount Meron, May 19, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Northern police chief resigns, taking responsibility for deadly Mt. Meron crush

By Michael Horovitz

An illustrative image of an anaphylaxis auto injector for allergy reactions (CarrieCaptured; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli backpacker, 22, dies from allergic reaction in Colombia

Lt. Col. Dan Sharoni, an IDF officer accused of of secretly filming his female soldiers, at a hearing at a military court in Tel Aviv, December 5, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

IDF officer facing 79 counts of sex crimes may receive lucrative army pension

By Emanuel Fabian

Jewish pitcher Eric Reyzelman, in action for Louisiana State University, has his sights set on a career in Major League Baseball. (Courtesy via JTA)

Jewish baseball pitcher Eric Reyzelman drafted by the New York Yankees

By jacob gurvis

President Joe Biden, right, looks on as his nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Steve Dettelbach, speaks during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 11, 2022. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Post by Kentucky Republicans claims ‘Jewish junta’ behind new gun control czar

By Andrew Lapin

Medics at the scene of a deadly brawl in Netanya, July 18, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Netanya man stabbed to death; partner’s son arrested

File: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz is shown at the defense table during jury selection in the penalty phase of his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida., June 28, 2022. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Death penalty looms as sentencing begins for gunman in Parkland school shooting

By TERRY SPENCER

Max Schachter reacts as video and audio are played from inside a classroom as bullets are fired into it during the penalty phase of the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, July 18, 2022. (Carline Jean / POOL / AFP)

Tears in court as families shown harrowing videos of Parkland shooting

By TERRY SPENCER

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu vetoed large donation by Packer to Peres Center, key witness tells court

Teddy bears and flowers are sit as a memorial outside of the Greenwood Park Mall food court on July 18, 2022 in Greenwood, Indiana. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images/AFP)

US authorities name Indiana mall shooter as Jonathan Sapirman, 20

By Arleigh Rodgers and RICK CALLAHAN

An ensemble from the Arab-Jewish Theater in Jaffa that will perform at Jaffa 110 on July 28, 2022 (Courtesy Keren Manor)

Lettin' looseFor 1 night, Jaffa bureaucracy gives way to performances and art

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli filmmaker Barak Heymann speaks to Channel 12 news, July 17, 2022. (Screenshot: Channel 12)

Poland demands return of $55,000 grant after Dani Karavan docu-maker won’t censor it

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