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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 28, 2022

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Jewish communities grapple with addiction as fentanyl crisis ravages US

American Jews have not been spared the devastating fallout of opioid abuse, which claimed 107,000 US lives in 2021, though some still struggle with stigmas while seeking help

An activist sets up cardboard gravestones with the names of victims of opioid overdose outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case was taking place in White Plains, New York, on August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A Teva Pharmaceuticals logistics center in Shoham, January 7, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)

Israeli drug company Teva reaches $4.3 billion settlement in US opioid lawsuits

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

One of the new ER robots at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center guides a patient (courtesy of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center)

Facility designed to also meet wartime needs

World’s largest ER opens in Israel, raising bar for tech and scale in emergency med

By Nathan Jeffay

President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid open new 8,000 square meter Tel Aviv facility boasting self-triage and robots to help you find your way

Miloon Kothari, member of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, briefs reporters on the first report of the Commission, June 14, 2022. (UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré)

Israel: Disband UN Gaza war probe over member’s ‘antisemitic comments’

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

PM’s office says commission member’s remarks on ‘Jewish lobby’ efforts on social media ‘echo darkest days of antisemitism’; US antisemitism envoy: Comments ‘unacceptable’

Lina Abu Akleh, the niece of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, speaks to the Associated Press at the US Capitol during a trip to Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Family members are in the nation's capital asking the Biden administration for an investigation into Shireen's death. (AP/Nathan Ellgren)

In DC, Abu Akleh’s family says no help from US for full probe into killing

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Yair Lapid meets with Jordanian King Abdullah II at the Royal Palace in Amman, July 27, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Lapid meets with Jordan’s Abdullah in Amman for first time as premier

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

People gather outside the Basmany district court in Moscow ahead of a hearing in the Russian government's case against the Jewish Agency on July 28, 2022. (Screen capture: TASS)

Live updates (closed)

Israel vows to keep Jewish Agency open in Russia, even with ‘adjustments’

Immigration minister says government is working to ‘deal with the claims’ against Jewish Agency in Russian court; former Moscow chief rabbi warns of ‘dark clouds on the horizon’

6:25 pm

Man arrested in case of missing teen released by police
6:08 pm

US State Department expresses hope for resolution in Israel-Russia Jewish Agency spat
5:49 pm

Poll shows Shaked-Hendel merger pushing them over electoral threshold

Op-ed

The perils of our increasingly unequal Israel

Undervaluing our teachers is not only deplorably shortsighted. It’s also emblematic of an economy dangerously dividing into an often callous elite and a demotivated majority

Israeli teachers demonstrate for better pay and conditions in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2022. The placard roughly translates as "Our sense of mission shouldn't mean lousy conditions" (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Arnon Bar-David, then a candidate in the elections for the Histadrut, arrives to vote at a polling station, during the Histadrut elections in Tel Aviv, May 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sasoni/Flash90)

Histadrut announces protests, information campaign to fight rising cost of living

By Tobias Siegal

A worker from the Israel Electric Corporation is seen repairing a faulty line, August 29, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Electricity prices to rise by 8.6% next month, says electric company

Alliance seeks to revive both of their political fortunes

Beleaguered right-wing leaders Shaked and Hendel unite as Zionist Spirit party

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Heads of merged Yamina and Derech Eretz say they will shoot for a unity government that includes both Netanyahu-led Likud and center-left, but not Arabs

Ayelet Shaked holds a press conference with Yoaz Hendel to announce their Zionist Spirit party at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, July 27, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Times of Israel diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman, on location in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in the wake of an attack by Russian artillery, on July 27, 2022. (Lazar Berman)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 28: Will Zionist Spirit spark joy? Plus, Kharkiv: Near the front

Likud supporters at Likud party headquarters in Jerusalem on elections night, March 23, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud site makes identities of party members public; feature is shut down

Lawyer Andrei Grishayev, foreground left, and his colleagues prepare to attend a preliminary hearing of the Russian claim to liquidate the Jewish Agency for Israel, in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

First Moscow court hearing on Jewish Agency’s fate ends without decision

By Judah Ari Gross

Preliminary meeting lasts roughly an hour with no significant discussion; next hearing, set for August 19, expected to be more decisive unless a deal is reached first

View of the Jewish Agency headquarters in Jerusalem, November 29, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli delegation finally allowed to fly to Russia to discuss Jewish Agency crisis

Matan Tsinman (Courtesy)

6-year-old Israeli boy killed, 6 injured in West Bank car crash

By Sara Serfaty

Mother, hospitalized, says Palestinian vehicle swerved into her lane; 3 siblings also hurt; mom says crash was terror attack, although no indication from security services

Visitors top up their glasses with treated seawater at a desalination plant near Hadera, Israel. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Concerned by low iodine levels in desalinated water, Israel starts nationwide study

By Nathan Jeffay

Hebrew University tests water supplies after Health Ministry finds iodine concentration among Israelis far below WHO-recommended levels, prompting childhood development worries

Hennady Korban attends a hearing in his corruption trial in Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 25, 2016. (Serhii Nuzhnenko/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

Zelensky said to strip 3 Jewish oligarchs of citizenship; all hold Israeli passports

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Igor Kolomoisky, Hennadiy Korban, Vadim Rabinovich — major backers of Jewish causes — also have strong patriotic credentials, so president’s reported move puzzles some observers

Ukrainian artillery fire is directed toward Russian forces at a frontline in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia renews assaults on Kyiv, Chernihiv regions amid Ukrainian counterattacks

Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky, left, with First Lady Olena Zelenska are interviewed on Sky News Australia, July 27, 2022. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Couple's communicationZelensky’s wife says he ‘forgot’ to mention he was running for president

By AFP and ToI Staff

Are the dead more important than the suffering living? Certainly not

Chained to her get-refuser husband for 18 years, Lonna is asking Israel to refuse to bury his family to give her the leverage she needs to push for her freedom

David E. Bernstein

What a ‘MENA’ racial classification would mean for American Jews

Arab American groups are pushing for the ’Middle Eastern and North African category’ in a bid for official victim status. Jews should oppose the change

A car burns in the central Israeli city of Lod during riots on May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Damning report finds systemic intelligence, operational failures in May 2021 riots

By Jeremy Sharon

State watchdog finds police failed to see unrest coming or adequately grasp breadth of violence, delaying deployments to help quell inter-ethnic fighting

Police are seen in Lod during ethnic rioting in the mixed Jewish-Arab city in central Israel, May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Security agencies say reforms already underway after handling of 2021 unrest panned

Image showing a Molotov cocktail attack on an Arab Israeli man and his companion at the Olga Beach in Hadrea, June 12, 2021. (Israel Police)

Prosecutors to indict three Israelis for hurling firebombs at Arab beachgoer

Police say suspects in ‘terrorist activity’ spoke to victim in Arabic then hurled Molotov cocktails at him that failed to ignite

File: Medics evacuate a man injured during riots in Acre, northern Israel, May 12, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

Arab Israeli man indicted on terror charges for Acre mob assault

By Jeremy Sharon

A ramp leading to a bridge where a man was stabbed in a suspected terror attack between Bnei Brak and Givat Shmuel, July 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bnei Brak bridge stabbing suspect to be tried for terror, police say

Families of 1972 Olympic attack victims reject ‘insulting’ German compensation offer

By Kirsten Grieshaber and Ilan Ben Zion

Berlin willing to pay further undisclosed damages, but spokesperson for ‘disappointed’ victims’ families says they won’t attend 50th anniversary memorial unless amount increases

German sharpshooters from the police force take position atop the building facing the Israeli delegation residence, to try and free the hostages held by the Arab terrorists during the Munich Olympics, Sept. 5, 1972. (AP Photo)

This illustration published by the military on July 27, 2022, shows a Hamas arms factory next to the Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip. (Israel Defense Forces)

Tunnel near Pepsi factory; arms factory near Shifa hospital

IDF exposes ‘Hamas sites’ in Gaza civilian areas, in bid to explain future strikes

By Emanuel Fabian

Southern Command officials presents foreign reporters with evidence of alleged infrastructure next to schools, mosques; officials admit difficulty in justifying activity during war

Illustrative: IDF soldiers operating in the West Bank on June 27, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Security forces arrest 10 terror suspects in overnight West Bank raids

By Sara Serfaty and Emanuel Fabian

A Gaza clothes merchant holds up jeans during a sit-in to protest a new tax of 10 shekels ($2.9) on each pair of imported jeans, in front of the Clothes Traders Syndicate in Gaza City, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Cash-strapped Hamas raises taxes in impoverished Gaza, sparking rare protests

An Iranian flag flutters at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant on November 10, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

For 2nd time in a week, Iran announces arrest of alleged Israeli spy network

Outlet claims spy ring was in contact with head of Mossad; comes days after Tehran claimed another group of spies was busted hours before detonating explosives at ‘sensitive site’

Enrique Mora, a leading European Union diplomat, second right, attends a meeting with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, third left, in Tehran, Iran, March 27, 2022. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Senior Biden official says revival of Iran nuke deal ‘highly unlikely’ — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Iran's Revolutionary Guard members stand in front of Shahab-3 missile which is displayed during the annual pro-Palestinians Al-Quds, or Jerusalem, Day rally in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran claims arrested Israel-linked agents were Kurdish rebels

By AFP and ToI Staff

Carine Kanimba listens during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Commercial Cyber Surveillance, July 27, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Victims of NSO’s Pegasus spyware warn it could be used to target US

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

‘Unless there are consequences for countries and their enablers who abuse this technology, none of us are safe,’ Carine Kanimba says during a House Intelligence Committee hearing

European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders speaks during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, September 15, 2021. (Yves Herman, Pool via AP)

EU says it found evidence that senior officials were targeted with NSO spyware

More Headlines

Iraqi protesters demonstrate inside the country's parliament in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July. 27, 2022. (AP/Ali Jabar)

Protesters break into Iraqi parliament, chant curses against Iran

By ALI ABDUL-HASSAN

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers his speech during a ceremony to mark the 69th anniversary of the signing of the ceasefire armistice that ends the fighting in the Korean War, in Pyongyang, North Korea, July 27, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea’s Kim threatens to use nukes in potential war with US, South Korea

By Hyung-Jin Kim

Seen on the screen of a device in Sausalito, Calif., Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces its new name, Meta, during a virtual event on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Facebook parent Meta posts first revenue decline in its history

By Barbara Ortutay

This photo provided by the Lake County Major Crime Task Force shows Robert Crimo, III. Crimo III has been charged with seven counts of First Degree Murder in the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, July 6, 2022. (Lake County Major Crime Task Force via AP)

Highland Park parade attack suspect indicted on 21 counts of murder

By AP

View of the Jewish outpost of Mitzpe Kramim, June 5, 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

In reversal, High Court rules Mitzpe Kramim outpost can remain on Palestinian land

By Jeremy Sharon

In this illustrative photo from December 11, 2019, Orthodox Jewish men pass by New York City police guarding a Brooklyn synagogue prior to a funeral for Mosche Deutsch, a rabbinical student from Brooklyn who was killed in a shooting at a Jersey City, New Jersey market. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Neo-Nazi US Marine plotted to attack Jews with Rapekrieg group, prosecutors say

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative. Cybersecurity protection. (Thinkhubstudio via iStock by Getty Images)

US-Israel fund launches cybersecurity program for critical infrastructure protection

By Ricky Ben-David

An illustrative photo of an Apple store in Thailand. (prachanart via iStock by Getty Images)

Apple picks Jerusalem for new development center in Israel

By Ricky Ben-David

Henrique Morelenbaum, one of Brazil's most prominent conductors, lost his extended family in the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Interludio via JTA)

ObituaryBrazilian Jewish conductor Henrique Morelenbaum dies at 90

By Marcus M. Gilban

Shelley Greenspan, on right, shown at the 2020 AIPAC policy conference. (Courtesy of Greenspan via JTA)

Biden taps Shelley Greenspan as next White House Jewish liaison

Norman Lear in a video uploaded to Instagram on July 27, 2022 (Screen grab)

Comic timingTV legend Norman Lear turns 100 with advice and a song

By Andrew Lapin

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