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What Matters Most On Monday, August 15, 2022

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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko speaks to (the much smaller) Times of Israel diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman (The Times of Israel)

Interview'Every dollar you send to Russia is bloody money'

Kyiv mayor to ToI: Huge mistake for Israel to stay neutral, ‘we’re defending Europe’

By Lazar Berman

Former heavyweight champ and Zelensky rival, who proudly displays a menorah on his shelf, tells Times of Israel that Ukraine is fighting for Western values, but needs more aid

A Russian serviceman patrols the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in Energodar, Ukraine. The photo was taken during a media trip led by the Russian military, May 1, 2022. (Andrey Borodulin/AFP)

Risks to Ukraine nuclear plant increase ‘every day,’ says mayor

By AFP

Illustrative: Israeli forces conduct arrest raids across the West Bank of Islamic Jihad terror suspects, August 6, 2022. (IDF)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli soldier hurt in possible friendly fire incident in West Bank

Army says investigation into shooting incident near city of Tulkarem ongoing; footage shows soldiers operating in area

9:20 pm

Israeli soldier hurt in apparent friendly fire incident in West Bank
8:37 pm

IDF official says West Bank shooting may have been friendly fire
8:32 pm

Israeli troops seen operating in West Bank city of Tulkarem after IDF said soldiers came under fire

An aerial view shows security forces uncovering a Hamas tunnel along the northern Gaza border, in an image published by the IDF on August 15, 2022. The fence on the left is Israel's old barrier along the internationally recognized border, and the right fence is the new one, with the underground barrier. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it foiled Hamas attack tunnel with two branches along northern Gaza border

By Emanuel Fabian

Official says tunnel first struck during last year’s war, but since repaired and extended by Hamas; it crossed into Israeli territory, but posed no danger due to underground wall

Illustrative: A Hamas security officer checks trucks carrying materials that are waiting to enter Gaza, at the Kerem Shalom cargo crossing with Israel, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, September 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

IDF official says Gaza exports have soared, as Israel seeks to incentivize calm

By Emanuel Fabian

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani holds a press conference in Tehran on July 13, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

‘Rushdie insulted Islam’: Justifying attack, Iran faults writer for his own stabbing

By AP and ToI Staff

Foreign Ministry rejects any Iranian responsibility, says the author ‘exposed himself to the anger and rage of the people’ through his actions

Salman Rushdie in New York, November 15, 2017. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

US slams ‘despicable’ Iranian media coverage of Salman Rushdie stabbing

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A general view shows UPMC Hamot Surgery Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, on August 13, 2022, where Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie is being treated. (Jorge Uzon / AFP)

Rushdie on the road to recovery, showing ‘defiant sense of humor’

The leaders of the new National Unity party at the party launch on Sunday night, August 14, 2022, in Kfar Maccabiah, from left to right: Gadi Eisenkot, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar. (Elad Malka)

Says public figure under indictment cannot run for office

At party launch, Eisenkot talks separation from Palestinians, minority rights

By Jeremy Sharon

Starting of National Unity’s campaign, Benny Gantz insists he can help form a moderate, stable government

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, head of the National Union alliance, center, withJustice Minister Gideon Saar, right, and Gadi Eizenkot at a press conference in Ramat Gan on August 14, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Eisenkot marches into politics with much fanfare, little immediate effect on polls

Then-interior minister and head of the Yamina party Ayelet Shaked holds a press conference at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, on July 27, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Report: Kahana asked that Shaked rule out narrow Netanyahu government — she refused

Bruce Gurfein and Joe Koen (left) cross into Israel at the Aqaba border crossing in Jordan, August 12, 2022. (Courtesy)

Interview

Making inroads: An unlikely 38-hour drive from Dubai to Jerusalem, via Riyadh

By Tal Schneider

Jewish US businessman Bruce Gurfein is on a three-week round-trip between the UAE and Israel to promote partnerships in food and desert technology. He’s doing it all in his car

Sarah Muscroft, head of OCHA OPT, speaks in a video address in December 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Israel urges UN chief to cancel ouster of top official who condemned PIJ rocket fire

Envoy Erdan says UN’s ‘surrender’ to Palestinian threats emblemizes a lack of objectivity, especially since inquiry member who recently denounced ‘Jewish lobby’ was not punished

Police scuffle with ultra-Orthodox men in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot on August 15, 2022, during a protest over the autopsy of a 4-year-old boy who was allegedly strangled to death by his uncle a few days before. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court accepts family request, orders 4-year-old released for burial without autopsy

By Judah Ari Gross

High Court of Justice overturns previous decision that prompted violent protests in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods

A protester watches as fires burn during a demonstration in Jerusalem on August 14, 2022, against the expected autopsy of a 4-year old boy. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hundreds of Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protest planned autopsy of 4-year-old boy

For Israel’s sake, Arab citizens must vote in droves

The Arab parties will balance the Knesset, and help block another self-serving government that’s propped up by religious fundamentalists and ultra-nationalists

Daniel Orenstein

A sacred silence

We’re assaulted by horn-honking, leaf-blowing, motorcycle-revving, jack-hammer operating noise almost everywhere, every day of the week – except one

Screenshot of an interactive map showing a section of a forest in Ecuador in which the red denotes lack of Above-Ground Carbon, green indicates an increase and white means no change. (Courtesy: Albo Climate)

Using satellites and AI, Israeli climate tech maps out where carbon is hiding

Cited as a company with ‘global potential’ by UN official tasked with designing global carbon market regulations, Albo Climate already has projects in Ecuador, Africa and US

A member of the Spanish hip-hop band Tribade defaces an Israeli flag at the Sziget Music Festival in Hungary, August 14, 2022. (Instagram)

Spanish band defaces Israeli flag at music festival, uploads video to Instagram

By Tobias Siegal

Barcelona-based rap group that prides itself on social activism writes ‘Israel doesn’t exist,’ draws penis on Israeli flag at campsite after performing at Hungary’s Sziget Festival

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, is escorted by Vice Chancellor Duncan Maskell as he arrives to hold a student town hall at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia, February 10, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/AP)

Australian student union calls for boycott of ‘apartheid colonial state’ Israel

Illustrative: A satellite photo of the Syrian port city of Tartus (Google maps)

Israeli airstrikes in Syria said to hit Iranian targets near Russian naval base

By Emanuel Fabian

Syrian officer says Iranian base and nearby air defense system hit in Tartus; Hezbollah posts near Damascus also reportedly struck

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian listens to a question during a joint press briefing with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Tehran, Iran, June 23, 2022 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran says it will deliver ‘final’ nuclear talks proposal Monday

By ToI Staff and AFP

A fire is seen burning near the coastal city of Tartus following a reported Israeli airstrike, August 14, 2022. (Social media)

Syria says Israeli jets strike near Damascus and Tartus, killing three soldiers

By Emanuel Fabian

Elazar, 19, (right) and Dovi, 16, (left) are seen at the Hadassah Mount Scopus hospital, after the pair were wounded in a shooting attack in Jerusalem, August 14, 2022. (Courtesy)

Brothers injured in Jerusalem shooting reunite in hospital after ‘miracle’ survival

Dovi and Elazar were hit at bus stop, with the latter narrowly escaping death; injured New York tourist recounts screams as shots tore into bus: ‘People shouted Shema Yisrael’

Civil Administration personnel and Border Police raze houses at the Ramat Migron illegal settlement outpost and evacuate the residents in the early hours of Monday morning, August 15, 2022. (Courtesy residents of Ramat Migron)

Police raze illegal settlement outpost for second time in a week

By Jeremy Sharon

Security services evacuate and level Ramat Migron overnight after settler activists rebuilt unauthorized settlement

Muhammad Shaham is seen lying on the floor of his home next to a knife he allegedly used to attack Border Police officers with, August 15, 2022. (Israel Police)

Palestinian tries to stab undercover cops during home search, is shot dead — police

By Emanuel Fabian

Student getting hands-on experience in Emergency Medicine Course at the Medical School for International Health (MSIH) at Soroka Medical Center. (Courtesy MSIH)

Israel ends lucrative American medical training programs to focus on local doctors

By Judah Ari Gross

Universities to lose major source of income, and country to lose boost to Diaspora ties; move meant to tackle shortage of spots for Israeli students

In cowboy country, Liz Cheney’s campaign dogged by specter of Trump

By Camille CAMDESSUS

CHEYENNE, Wyoming (AFP) -- In Wyoming, Donald Trump still reigns supreme. For having dared to defy him, fellow Republican Liz Cheney, the prominent congresswoman from the conservative western US state, faces a perilous reelection campaign. "Cheney's time is done," said Mike Schaefer, a 37-year-old resident of the capital... Continue Reading

Congresswoman Liz Cheney gives a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, June 29, 2022, in Simi Valley, California. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

The area where a man crashed into a barricade at the US Capitol on August 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. A man crashed his car into a barricade protecting the US Capitol early Sunday and fired a handgun in the air several times before fatally shooting himself. (TASOS KATOPODIS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / via AFP)

Man kills himself after ramming US Capitol barrier, firing weapon

By Agencies and ToI Staff

From the left, US Democratic House member Alan Lowenthal from California, Democratic House member John Garamendi, Donald Yu-Tien Hsu, Director-General of the Department of North American Affairs at Taiwan's Foreign Affairs Ministry, Democratic House member Don Beyer from Virginia and Republican Congressman Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, a delegate from American Samoa pose for a photo after arriving on a US government plane at Songshan airport in Taipei, Taiwan, August 14, 2022. (Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

US lawmakers to meet Taiwan’s president despite China’s rage over Pelosi visit

By Catherine Lai

ToI tale about soccer hero saving German Jew will be studied by Premier League youth

The UK's Holocaust Education Trust will integrate the story of how a Tottenham Hotspur soccer player saved the life of this writer's father-in-law into its Football Remembers the Holocaust program for under-14s in the elite Premier League. As reported in the Times of Israel last month, Rolf Friedland went to watch England beat... Continue Reading

An undated photograph of Rolf Friedland, later Ralph Freeman (top row, third from left), with his football team in Berlin. (Courtesy)

First personHow a Tottenham Hotspur soccer player saved my father-in-law’s life

Analysis

Ricky Ben-David

A correction, not a burst bubble: Israeli tech sector grapples with market realities

The global tech industry has seen better days. In recent months, private and public companies, including US tech giants, have put in motion thousands of layoffs and hiring freezes as the sector hunkers down amid a market downturn that took off this past spring. Israel's celebrated tech sector has been no exception to the slump.... Continue Reading

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (AP /Seth Wenig)

New construction of residential apartments in Ashkelon, January 19, 2019. (chert61 via iStock by Getty Images)

New homes sales in Israel fall, as mortgage-borrowing also down

By Danielle Nagler

More Headlines

This photo released by the Shin Bet security agency on August 15, 2022, shows Arab Israelis Muhammad Farouk Yousef Agbaria and Abd al-Mahdi Masoud Muhammad Jabarin, who were arrested for alleged ties to the Islamic State jihadist group. (Shin Bet)

3 Arab Israelis arrested for alleged IS ties, plans to join jihadist group in Africa

By Emanuel Fabian

General view of the Lahav 443 police unit headquarters in the city of Lod on November 4, 2019. (Flash90/File)

Former prison guard confronts terror inmate she alleges raped her multiple times

Israeli pop composer and singer Svika Pick, on September 21, 2004. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

‘Israel’s king of pop’ Svika Pick laid to rest in private ceremony

A bird's eye view of Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus (Nati Shohat/ Flash 90)

Three Israeli universities rise in prestigious global rankings

By Michael Horovitz

Customers wield chairs during a fight with restaurant staff in Eilat, August 14, 2022. (Screenshot)

Brawl erupts at Eilat eatery after long wait for food riles up customers

Taliban fighters hold a parade in Kabul, marking one year since taking over the Afghan capital. (video screenshot)

Taliban marks a year since taking over Afghanistan amid mounting woes

By Rahim Faiez and EBRAHIM NOROOZI

Fariba Adelkhah. (France 24 screenshot)

French academic held by Iran sent back to prison after 5-day reprieve

By AFP

Supreme Court Justice Meni Mazuz at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Menachem Mazuz made head of senior appointments panel, over right-wing objections

By Jeremy Sharon and Ash Obel

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