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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 18, 2022

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The Mossad's new director of intelligence, known as Aleph, is the first women to take on the position. Her appointment was announced on August 18, 2022 (Defense Ministry Spokesperson)

In firsts, Mossad’s director of intelligence and head of Iran desk are both women

Appointments mark first time women have held two senior positions in spy agency; Mossad chief: ‘Unlimited possibilities’ for women in organization; Bennett: ‘We’re in good hands’

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media at Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Pressure mounts on Netanyahu over dearth of women on Likud slate

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a conference in Ganei Tikva, August 18, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Military chief says IDF forces struck ‘third country’ during recent Gaza fighting

By Emanuel Fabian

Kohavi doesn’t name nation or target, but Arab media reported Iranians and Lebanese killed in large explosion at Houthi camp in Yemen earlier this month

An IAI EItan drone is seen at the Tel Nof airbase, during Operation Breaking Dawn in early August 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Armed drones gave IDF ‘surgical’ precision during recent Gaza fighting, officers say

By Emanuel Fabian

Iranian deputy foreign minister Reza Najafi leaves the Palais Coburg where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, August 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter)

Iran is preparing its public for return to nuclear deal, says Israeli official

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mehmet Oz, a Republican candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania, takes part in a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

'Israel should not have to give up any of its territory'

Hosted by GOP Jewish group, Dr. Oz makes case for becoming first-ever Muslim senator

Seeking to close in on J Street-backed Democratic frontrunner, Republican nominee says he won’t pressure Israel, mostly leaves Trump and far-right governor candidate unmentioned

Eric Marcus, Founder and Host of ‘Making Gay History’

In the late 80s, Eric Marcus decided to leave his job at CBS & take a leap of faith to pursue a project that required creating an oral history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement

An Israeli soldier welds a door shut, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 18, 2022. Israeli troops operated against several Palestinian rights organizations it has declared as terror groups. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel shuts offices of Palestinian rights organizations it labeled terror groups

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF troops confiscate property, weld doors of offices in Ramallah shut, after defense minister ratifies 2021 decision to outlaw groups over alleged ties to PFLP

Palestinian youths throw stones at army vehicles during a military operation by the Israeli army to arrest wanted persons from the Balata camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, on August 17, 2022. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian teen killed as rioters attack Jewish pilgrimage to Joseph’s Tomb

Analysis

With reset, Turkey and Israel look to build durable ties that can reshape the region

After more than two years of fitful progress, Israel and Turkey finally agreed Wednesday to restore full diplomatic relations, four years after Ankara humiliated Israel's envoy on his way out of the country. The development, which observers saw as a matter of when and not if, doesn't mean that the two regional powers see eye-to-eye... Continue Reading

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Israel's President Isaac Herzog speak to the media after their talks, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

Composite image shows Prime Minister Yair Lapid, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool; AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Lapid, Erdogan speak after restoring ties, agree to restart direct flights

Israeli and Turkish flags from a press conference between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Israel's President Isaac Herzog in Ankara, Turkey, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 18: Turkey & Israel mend relations; defensive defense minister

Interview

Lost for decades, 3 minutes of pre-Holocaust life becomes a full-length documentary

By Jordan Hoffman

Out on August 19, a new film, ‘Three Minutes – A Lengthening,’ by Dutch filmmaker Bianca Stigter, looks in depth at recovered footage of a Polish town prior to its devastation

Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton attends faction meeting of her New Hope party at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Education minister urges PM to call emergency meeting on teachers crisis

With start of school year threatened, Shasha-Biton says sha has ‘repeatedly found that Finance Ministry officials are uninterested in reaching a real solution’

6:32 pm

Finnish PM has 'no problem' taking drug test after video controversy
6:03 pm

Rushdie stabbing suspect pleads not guilty to attempted murder, assault
4:39 pm

Lapid to parents of soldier slain by friendly fire: 'Entire country crying with you'

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas leave after a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on August 16, 2022. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)

In call with Lapid, German leader again condemns Abbas ‘holocausts’ remarks

By Lazar Berman

Olaf Scholz tells PM it was important to personally decry PA president’s allegation; Lapid urges Europe to stop letting Iran drag its feet in nuclear talks

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP/Collage)

Gantz defends Abbas meetings amid outcry over PA chief’s ‘holocausts’ comment

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, welcomes President Reuven Rivlin at a ceremony commemorating the 11 Israeli athletes who were killed in a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, September 6, 2017. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

German president mulling Israel visit amid Munich 50th anniversary boycott

Op-ed

Mahmoud Abbas’s lifelong falsification of Jewish history

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. First came Yasser Arafat, who repeatedly and clear-headedly chose to forgo the opportunity of winning statehood for the Palestinian people on... Continue Reading

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on August 16, 2022. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)

The many lies of Mahmoud Abbas

Am I being paranoid? How else can one explain the lack of any sanction against those who spew out these poisonous lies again and again and again?

Finding Mr./Ms. Right among the produce

Flirting at the cheese counter may sound like a waste of time, but supermarket dating was popular overseas for a reason, and it just may be worth a try

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists in New York City, March 30, 2022. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

Jewish sexual assault survivors rejected by NY campus support group, complaint says

2 students request US Department of Education investigation of New York’s university at New Paltz, saying they were discriminated against with the administration’s knowledge

Illustrative: Antisemitic vandalism on the wall of a New York synagogue, August 17, 2022. (Courtesy)

Vandals scrawl ‘Hitler’ on New York City synagogue

A soldier's ceramic armor plating is seen damaged after being hit by a fellow soldier's accidental gunfire in the West Bank city of Nablus, August 18, 2022. (Courtesy)

Bulletproof vest saves soldier as comrade accidentally fires at him in IDF vehicle

By Emanuel Fabian

Soldier only lightly hurt in accident in West Bank; latest incident follows fatal friendly fire killing of a soldier earlier in the week

Family and friends attend the funeral of IDF soldier Nathan Fitoussi, who was killed by friendly fire near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, August 16, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Soldiers say similar incident occurred 2 days before fatal friendly fire incident

Family and friends attend the funeral of IDF soldier Nathan Fitoussi, who was killed by friendly fire near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, August 16, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Lawyers call to halt probe of soldier in suspected friendly fire killing

By Emanuel Fabian

Members of the Oberammergau Passion Play, which has been telling the New Testament story of Jesus’ death and resurrection since 1634, sing backstage in Oberammergau, Germany, July 12, 2022. (Angelika Warmuth/picture alliance via Getty Images/ via JTA)

'He's reformed and bent the rules as far as he could'

The director of Germany’s infamous Passion Play takes its antisemitism by the horns

By Toby Axelrod

Staged once a decade since the 17th century, the production brings visitors from around the world. The man directing it, Christian Stückl, says his changes are long overdue

An Israeli man receives a second booster of the COVID-19 vaccine in Modi'in, on January 6, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israeli health officials brace for combined wave of flu and COVID ahead of winter

Health Ministry’s Sharon Alroy-Preis urges vaccines against both viruses, noting that shots for influenza and coronavirus can be administered at the same time

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, left, listens as Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf testifies virtually during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, Thursday, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Admitting botched pandemic response, CDC head orders major agency overhaul

This combination of pictures created on July 12, 2022 shows Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss arriving to attend the weekly Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, in London, on April 19, 2022, and Britain's then-chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak leaving the 11 Downing Street, in London, on March 23, 2022. (Daniel Leal and Tolga Akmen/AFP)

UK premiership candidates offer cautious backing for embassy move to Jerusalem

By Michael Horovitz

Rishi Sunak calls Jerusalem undisputed capital of Israel but notes move is easier said than done, while Conservative Party race frontrunner Liz Truss commits to ‘review’ matter

Members of the Jewish community celebrate Purim in Manchester, in northern England, on March 17, 2022. (OLI SCARFF / AFP)

As Manchester’s Jewish community grows, a local kosher certifier shuts down

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Regional complications leave Jordan River rich in holiness, but poor in water

Efforts to rehabilitate valley conduit stymied as conservationists seek to reverse damage from years of conflict, resource abuse and pollution

US green group reschedules Israel trips it canceled under pro-Palestinian pressure

By Gabe Stutman

Ukrainian Jewish refugees are seen in a newly opened kosher camp on the southern shore of Lake Balaton in Balatonoszod, Hungary, on July 29, 2022. (Peter Kohalmi/AFP)

Observant Ukrainian Jewish refugees find peace at Hungarian resort complex

By Peter Murphy

More Headlines

Former Jerusalem District Commander, Nissan 'Niso' Shaham, at the district court in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2018. (Flash90)

Ex-top cop in sex crimes case set to walk free after court overrules appeal

This photo, provided by the Liberty Township Fire Department, shows a fire that consumed a building at the site of the long-closed Grossinger's resort, once among the most storied and glamorous hotels in New York's Catskills, in Liberty, N.Y., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. (Liberty Fire Chief Mark Johnstone via AP)

Fire destroys part of fabled Catskills resort Grossinger’s

By AP

Yaffa Ben David, the secretary general of the Israel Teachers Union, speaks at a conference of the Federation of Local Authorities in Ganei Tikva, August 18, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Teachers union chief predicts ‘chaos,’ school year not opening due to wage dispute

Liz Cheney, a Republican Congresswoman from Wyoming, stands by flags as she waits to speak at a primaries day gathering, Jackson, Wyoming, August 16, 2022. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Liz Cheney mulls 2024 presidential bid after GOP primary loss to Trump-backed rival

By AP and ToI Staff

Former US vice president Mike Pence gestures during the 'Politics and Eggs' breakfast gathering, Aug. 17, 2022, in Manchester, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Tacking against Trump, Pence tells GOP to stop attacking FBI over Mar-a-Lago search

Hadi Matar, 24, arrives for an arraignment in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, New York, August 13, 2022. Matar is accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against 'Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Rushdie attacker ‘surprised’ author survived, praises Khomeini

By AFP

A flower wreath with the Israeli flag is seen at Erinnerungsort Olympia-Attentatat, the memorial site for the 11 Israeli athletes and German police officer killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Olympic Park in Munich, southern Germany, August 17, 2022. (INA FASSBENDER/AFP)

German guard detained for Hitler salute to Israeli athletes visiting Munich memorial

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Taliban fighter stands guard in front of a mosque at the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

10 killed, dozens wounded in Kabul mosque explosion

An illustrative image of a data center; server farm and a cloud service concept (noLimit46; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli startup DriveNets secures $262m for cloud networking software

By Ricky Ben-David

Razi, a soccer player identifying as gay, in a campaign launched by the Culture and Sports Ministry aimed at combating prejudice against the LGBTQ community in sport. (Screengrab/YouTube)

Punching up‘Winning against prejudices’: Bid to tackle homophobia in sports

By Michael Horovitz

Rolf Eden arrives for the Cinema for Peace gala in Berlin, Feb. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

ObituaryRolf Eden, German playboy who fought in Israel’s Independence War, dies at 92

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Jonah Hill, recipient of the CinemaCon Vanguard award, poses at the Big Screen Achievement Awards on April 26, 2018, in Las Vegas. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Jonah Hill will no longer promote his films as he reveals mental health battle

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