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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 20, 2022

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The scene of a suspected stabbing attack near Ramot Junction in Jerusalem on July 19, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man moderately hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack, Palestinian assailant shot

By Emanuel Fabian

Victim, 41, attacked with screwdriver on bus near Ramot; civilian shoots stabber before officers reach area

Screenshot from a video uploaded to social media showing students at the Anata High School for boys in East Jerusalem in a play that includes students dressed up as gunmen "shooting" students dressed up as religious Jews, July 20, 2022. (Twitter)

Video shows Palestinian students ‘executing’ Jews in East Jerusalem school play

Illustrative: View of the barrier along the Israel-Gaza border, on December 8, 2021. (Flash90)

IDF strikes Hamas post after gunfire from Gaza hits southern town

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli startup AIR developed an eVTOL aircraft called AIR ONE for the consumer market. (AIR/courtesy)

Liftoff: Israeli startup’s ‘flying car’ aces first test

By Ricky Ben-David

AIR says its AIR ONE aircraft, a two-seater eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicle, performed ‘flawlessly’ in a hover test in northern Israel

Ashalim solar power station in the Negev desert. August 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

First map of Israeli desert tech identifies over 300 companies

File - Then-Syrian president Bashar Assad (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Damascus, Syria, January 7, 2020. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Syria announces cutting all ties with Ukraine in support of close ally Russia

By AFP

Kyiv already severed relations with Damascus after Syria recognized breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine

Firefighters put out a fire in a yard of a house in the town of Bakhmut following an airstrike on July 19, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Igor TKACHEV / AFP)

Russian strikes pummel Ukraine as Putin wins Iranian support for offensive

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Iran's late President Ebrahim Raisi pose for a photo at the Saadabad palace in Tehran, Iran, July 19, 2022. (Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

In Tehran, Putin, Raisi and Erdogan vow to continue Syria cooperation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Make the veggie street treat Israelis adore

This Sunday, Chef Harry Rubenstein will show us how to make a trendy Israeli street food, ara’yes — with a vegetarian twist! Grab your apron and join us live.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid flies over the Karish gas field on July 19, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

PM flies over Israeli gas field claimed by Lebanon amid Hezbollah threats

Lapid emphasizes economic potential, but says negotiations should conclude for Beirut to also enjoy resource

Iran says fatwa against building nuclear weapons unchanged after ‘bomb’ comment

By AFP

TEHRAN, Iran — Tehran gave assurances Wednesday that its nuclear policy was unchanged and that it still adhered to a fatwa banning weapons of mass destruction, after an Iranian official said the country was able to make atomic bombs. It is the second time in the past 18 months... Continue Reading

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, second right, listens to an explanation while viewing an advanced centrifuge at an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran on April 9, 2022. (Iran President's Office)

Relatives mourn over the flag draped coffin of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei during his funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian politician says Israel ‘freely runs its operations’ in Tehran

Israeli police and soldiers attempt to block settlers from the Nachala Settlement Movement at the Gush Etzion Junction, July 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Police begin evacuating illegal West Bank outposts set up by radical settler group

Thousands turn out to multiple sites in effort led by right-wing Nachala movement and backed by MKs from several parties, despite police, IDF calling such activity illegal

6:50 pm

Government 'satisfied' with TV station's apology over Mecca stunt
6:23 pm

Kohavi meets members of Moroccan Jewish community during visit to Marrakesh
6:15 pm

NASA aiming for test flight of giant moon rocket in late August

ArchaeologyExpert: We dug through 'all the layers of ancient Jerusalem'

Elevator project at the Western Wall unearths an ancient archaeological trove

By Ilan Ben Zion

Old City excavations, ahead of work to improve disabled access at holy site, uncover ornate 1st century villa, oil lamps and a ritual mikveh that overlooked the Temple esplanade

A dead common kestrel at the foot of a wind turbine at Sirin in 2017. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Environment minister seeks moratorium on new wind farms to probe impact on nature

Ministry says 200 new turbines, some as high as Israel’s tallest towers, planned for gusty Golan and other areas, endangering wildlife, with protective tech having ‘zero effect’

A facility outfitted with SolarEdge's technology. Illustrative. (Screenshot/YouTube)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 20: From snorkeling at Straits of Tiran to harnessing Saudi sun

A blaze in the village of Wennington, east London, July 19, 2022 (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

London firefighters had busiest day since WWII amid scorching heatwave, says mayor

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Sadiq Khan accuses Conservative leadership candidates vying to succeed Johnson of ignoring climate change ‘elephant in the room’; activists block motorway, call for urgent action

Fire burns next to houses in the area of Drafi east of Athens on July 20, 2022 (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Wildfire threatens Athens hillside suburbs for second day

By AP

The Camp Koby model of healing

Our campers have suffered loss, but when we cloak their sadness in kindness, we help them tell their stories, on the kids’ own terms, which makes them bearable

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

Andrew Silow-Carroll

How I learned to stop kvetching and love the Yiddish revival

The language has always been a harsh reminder of the cruel twists of Jewish history; then I saw the young adults who were not mourning, but dancing in the aisles

An illustrative composite image of Felicia Berliner's new book, 'Shmutz,' and a Hasidic family in Brooklyn in 2013. (Courtesy; AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Interview'Yiddish has so many juicy words for sex'

Provocative novel peeps into the profane world of a Haredi woman’s porn addiction

In her debut work set in New York, pseudonymous author Felicia Berliner tells the story of a young Hasidic woman sucked into an obsession with ‘Shmutz’

Police, army gear up for clashes as settler group to try set up 3 illegal outposts

By Jeremy Sharon

The radical Nachala Settlement Movement was set to send hundreds of activists to at least three locations in the West Bank on Wednesday afternoon in a bid to set up illegal settlement outposts. The operation threatens to spark clashes between the activists and the security services that are... Continue Reading

An activist from the Nachala Settlement Movement organization confronts a Peace Now activist at a rally point for Peace Now, which is sending volunteers into the West Bank to stymie Nachala's effort to establish three new settlement outposts. (Courtesy Peace Now)

Israeli businessman, Shaul Elovitch seen after a court hearing in the Bezeq Affair, at the Tel Aviv District Court on July 20, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Court drops some charges against Elovitch, clears other officials in Bezeq affair

Judge rules several of the charges in indictment do not constitute a crime; prosecutors to consider their next steps; issue sparked Case 4000 at heart of Netanyahu corruption trial

Hadas Klein arrives at a court hearing in the trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem District Court, July 19, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Key witness in Netanyahu trial says Milchan felt free to pull ex-PM from meetings

Then-Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon holds a press conference at the Finance Ministry office in Jerusalem, September 23, 2019. (Flash90)

Ex-finance minister Kahlon grilled over alleged involvement in credit firm scandal

Swarm of jellyfish off the coast near Haifa, July 19, 2022 (Rotem Sadeh/Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Photo essay

Off the Haifa coast, a giant jellyfish swarm speckles the sea

Nature and Parks Authority blames increases in huge schools of the gelatinous creatures in Mediterranean on human behavior, including pollution, climate change

Illustrative -- Dor Beach on September 9, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

83-year-old man drowns off beach near Zichron Yaakov; son unable to save him

Rabbi Barbara Aiello reads prayers in her 'Ner Tamid del Sud' (The Eternal Light of the South) synagogue in Serrastretta, southern Italy, July 8, 2022 (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

'She invited us to a safe place. It was like a miracle'

US rabbi revives Italian hamlet by restoring Jewish roots, bringing Ukraine refugees

By Frances D'Emilio

Rabbi Barbara Aiello reconnects ancestral community with Jewish history, links that were nearly severed 5 centuries ago when the Inquisition forced Jews to convert to Christianity

Beersheba teenagers, participants in the 48ers program, work on computers during one of the program's technological education activities in an undated photograph. (Matan Amira/The Equalizer)

From 76ers to 48ers: Sports nonprofit works to level playing field in Israel

By Charlie Summers

NGO that brands itself the ‘home of sports for social change’ looks to raise money with an unusual fundraising technique — auctioning off Philadelphia memorabilia over Facebook

San Francisco Giants' Joc Pederson collects himself between pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

All-star Joc Pederson to play for Israel in 2023 World Baseball Classic

By jacob gurvis

Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid plays during an NBA basketball game, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP/Matt Slocum)

Center of attentionSixers’ Embiid spotted dancing the hora at Jewish wedding

By Gabe Friedman

Explainer

Israel’s monkeypox vaccines strategy: Stop sexual spread to those most at-risk

The first monkeypox vaccinations headed to Israel will be reserved for men who have sex with other men (MSM) and whose medical records suggest particularly high vulnerability to the virus. Following Israel's decision to secure 10,000 monkeypox vaccines, Dr. Tal Brosh, coordinator of Israel’s Epidemic Management Team and chair of its deliberations on the national... Continue Reading

A man receives a dose of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine as part of DC Health's first vaccination drive in Washington, U.S., June 28, 2022. (REUTERS/Gavino Garay via Alamy)

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Then-Meretz party leader Zehava Galon speaks at the Annual International Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv on January 31, 2018. (Flash90)

Meretz’s Galon says she’s returning to politics to foil a Netanyahu return to power

By Tobias Siegal

Jeremy Corbyn, left, sits waiting to speak next to Keir Starmer during their election campaign event on Brexit in Harlow, England, November 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Leaked report says rival factions in Corbyn’s Labour wielded antisemitism as weapon

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi is greeted by an honor guard in Rabat, Morocco, July 19, 2022. (IDF)

Kohavi meets Morocco’s defense minister, army chief on second day of landmark trip

By Emanuel Fabian

File - people arrive on the Jordanian side of the Allenby Bridge crossing between the West Bank and Jordan on July 19, 2022. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

Jordan says crowding at Allenby crossing ‘unprecedented,’ Israel to blame

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police chief Kobi Shabtai ahead of his testimony before the Meron disaster commission, in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Commission set to tell police brass they will be held responsible for Meron disaster

Rami Yogev, who worked in the security system at El Al and was convicted for his part in a drug smuggling ring, arrives for his sentence at the District Court in Tel Aviv, July 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Former top El Al security worker gets 12 years for smuggling cocaine on the job

Lior Israelov with scrapes and burns after getting trapped in a sinkhole near the Dead Sea in July 2022. (Screenshot)

Sucky situationDrag queen trapped in Dead Sea sinkhole, barely escapes

Illustrated: A general view of the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters, September 21, 2016. (AP/Jason DeCrow)

Lapid and nearly every other world leader to crowd UN assembly in September

By Edith M. Lederer

The Ryanair plane carrying opposition figure Raman Pratasevich, lands at the international airport outside Vilnius, Lithuania, May 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

UN aviation watchdog condemns Belarus for fake Hamas bomb threat

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this image taken from video, then New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a virtual press conference, in New York, Dec. 2, 2021. (AP Photo)

Two Jewish candidates still in contention for US House race after De Blasio’s exit

Georgia school slammed over new logo’s similarity to Nazi symbol

By AP

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Caregiver held on suspicion of indecent assault of Jerusalem nursing home resident

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