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What Matters Most On Friday, August 19, 2022

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

Berlin police investigate Abbas for incitement to hatred over ’50 holocausts’ remark

By AP and ToI Staff

Police launch preliminary probe since downplaying the Holocaust is a criminal offense in Germany, but Abbas would be immune from prosecution

Photo combination: Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads his first weekly cabinet meeting, July 3, 2022 (left); Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas talks to the media during a press conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, June 14, 2022 (Haim Zach/GPO; Iakovos Hatzistavrou, Pool via AP)

Likud assails Lapid for seeking peace deal with ‘Holocaust denier’ Abbas

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (right) and alternate prime minister Naftali Bennett at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 31, 2022. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

World must ‘walk away’ from Iran nuclear talks, Lapid tells Western leaders

By Lazar Berman

Senior Israeli official says continuing to negotiate shows weakness after Tehran gave noncommittal response to ‘take it or leave it’ offer

Iranian deputy foreign minister Reza Najafi, left, and Iranian AEOI spokesperson Behrouz Kamalvandi, seen leaving the Palais Coburg where closed-door nuclear talks took place in Vienna, Austria, August 5, 2022. (AP/Florian Schroetter)

Iranian hardliners say US set to make concessions for nuclear deal — report

Illustrative: Posters of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a US drone attack on January 3, 2020, are seen in front of Qiam, background left, Zolfaghar, top right, and Dezful missiles displayed in a missile capabilities exhibition by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard at Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, January 7, 2022 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

AnalysisWith nuclear deal tantalizingly close, Iran murder plots pose new hurdles for US

Liudmyla Matrenin and Lev visit the Mediterranean Sea on their first full day in Israel on March 25, 2022. (Courtesy/Liudmyla Matrenin)

'It was like a flashback to the first day of the invasion'

For Ukrainian refugees in Israel, Gaza operation rekindles still-smoldering trauma

By Melanie Lidman

Many fleeing the Russian invasion already have difficulty accessing child care and medicine while facing an uncertain future in the Jewish state. And then add falling rockets

Ben Gvir said considering offering ex-spy Pollard a place on his Knesset slate

By Tobias Siegal

Far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir is considering offering convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard a place on his Otzma Yehudit party's slate for the elections on November 1. According to a Thursday report in the Israel Hayom newspaper, Ben Gvir recently met with the former US intelligence analyst and... Continue Reading

Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, left, attends the funeral of his wife Esther in Jerusalem on January 31, 2022; MK Itamar Ben Gvir, right, speaks during a press conference in Ramat Gan on August 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 31, 2022. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Leaked Lapid campaign document lists photo ops neglected by Netanyahu

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: Palestinians from the Gaza Strip enter Israel through the Erez Crossing. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel to allow 1,500 more Palestinian workers to enter from Gaza on Sunday

By Emanuel Fabian

Military liaison to Palestinians stresses, however, that expansion of permit quota — to an eventual 20,000 — contingent on ‘security stability’

Security camera footage of Israeli troops raiding the offices of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees in Ramallah on August 16, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)

US says concerned by Israel’s raid on Palestinian NGOs, not convinced by prior intel

State Department says Israel pledged to provide new information justifying office closures, says ‘high bar’ needed to act against civil society

The Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC) offices after Israeli security forces carried out a raid in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 18, 2022. (Flash90)

UN says Israeli raids on Palestinian NGOs ‘cannot be taken lightly’

Salah Sawafta, 58, was reported killed during an IDF raid in the northern West Bank on August 19, 2022. (WAFA)

Palestinians say man killed by IDF gunfire during West Bank raid

By ToI Staff and Agencies

InterviewJust as he was taking in the sights of NYC, war broke out

Graphic memoir paints wild tale of a stranded UK Jew who fought for the US in WWII

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘The English GI,’ Jonathan Sandler brings to life an unlikely series of events starting with a class trip to America that led to his grandfather fighting Nazis in a US uniform

Medical students at the Technion's American medical program get hands-on experience in a lab in August 2022. (Technion)

'This is a drop in the ocean that will only cause damage'

Top doctors denounce government decision to shut Israel’s American medical schools

By Judah Ari Gross

Head of Education Ministry’s own expert committee opposed move meant to alleviate doctor shortage; former Health Ministry chief calls closures ‘unnecessary and wretched’

Halleli Busheri (left) and Tair Offir, two shlichim, emissaries on staff at Camp Ramah in the Poconos during summer 2022 (Courtesy)

Podcast: ‘Just like in the movies,’ say Israeli counselors of US sleepaway camp

Two shlichim — emissaries — working at Camp Ramah talk about their two months in this very Jewish American experience

These are my unfavorite things

The first prevailing challenge is in the transitions, for I must pretend to love everything new, when really I want it all returned to how it was before

A new set of eyes and Herzl’s prophecy fulfilled

Israel is the intense altercation of Jewish history with the rest of the world, and the magic of its reality may explain why it is home to me like nowhere else

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shows the way to President Isaac Herzog during a welcome ceremony, in Ankara, Turkey, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Herzog speaks to Erdogan after restoration of ties, hopes for ‘future progress’

By Tobias Siegal

Talking after countries agreed to return ambassadors, Turkish president thanks Israeli counterpart for his ‘significant efforts’ in promoting bilateral relations

(L to R) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shake hands at the end of their press-conference following the talks in western Ukrainian city of Lviv on August 18, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)

Erdogan warns of ‘another Chernobyl’ after talks with Zelensky, Guterres in Ukraine

By Dmytro Gorshkov and Thibault MARCHAND

Carl Paladino listens during a media briefing, Oct. 31, 2010, in Old Bethpage, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

GOP candidate who called for AG Garland to be ‘executed’ says remark was ‘facetious’

By AP

Carl Paladino later clarifies that he wants Garland removed from office, accusing him of authorizing raid on Trump home for publicity

US Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Justice Department following the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, August. 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Antisemitic threats persist following the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

By MADELINE FIXLER

US President Joe Biden speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House, August 10, 2022, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden to host domestic unity summit against hate-fueled violence

Russian court postpones verdict in Jewish Agency case by 30 days

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

A Russian court on Friday postponed its verdict in the country's case against the Jewish Agency for a month in a move Israel hopes will give it more time to reach an agreement with Moscow and prevent the shuttering of the agency's offices in Russia, Russian media reported. During the hearing in Moscow's... Continue Reading

The Jewish Agency's lawyer, Andrei Grishayev, foreground right, and his colleagues speak to journalists after attending a hearing in the trial of the Russian Justice Ministry's request to shutter the organization in the Basmany District Court in Moscow, Russia, on August 19, 2022. (AP Photo)

A sign is seen outside the entrance of a Russian branch of the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) office in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Israel in final push for deal with Russia as Jewish Agency trial opens

By Judah Ari Gross

"Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation." (Courtesy Anne Frank Fonds)

Amid outcry, Texas school says Anne Frank adaptation will be back on shelves soon

By Andrew Lapin

Superintendent says version of Holocaust diary temporarily removed as district implements new policy for reviewing challenged books

In this file photo taken on May 27, 1989, an islamic man holds a sign calling for the death of British author Salman Rushdie near the Westminster Bridge in London. (AFP)

For Arab authors, stabbing of Rushdie rekindles old fears

By AFP

The publication of ‘The Satanic Verses’ in 1988 sparked mass protests in India and Pakistan, partly for depicting Prophet Mohammed in casual and familiar language

Defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, and Hadi Matar, 24, right, listen during an arraignment in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY, August 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex)

Rushdie’s stabber Hadi Matar denied bail; judge tells lawyers not to speak to press

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

Actor Adam Sandler (left) with Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin of Toronto's Beth Tzedec Synagogue, where Sandler and cast spent much of the summer filming his upcoming tween film, 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!' (Courtesy: Robyn Fryer Bodzin)

Comedian-in-residence

Adam Sandler spends 6 weeks at Toronto shul shooting bat mitzvah film

By Jessica Steinberg

Sandler, Idina Menzel and SNL actor Sarah Sherman get friendly with the rabbis, Beth Tzedec’s Steven Wernick and Robyn Fryer Bodzin

Jesse Eisenberg attends the LA Premiere of "Zombieland: Double Tap" in Los Angeles, October 10, 2019. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Jesse Eisenberg’s next film tracks 2 cousins exploring grandmother’s Holocaust story

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

Filmmaker Artyom Dubitski. (Jacob Rivkin/Times of Israel)

Interview

Jerusalem Film Fest prizewinner seeks ‘cure’ for Russian-Israeli family’s divide

In debut documentary, Artyom Dubitski delves into a family mystery leading to an emotional reunion in Russia, as Ukraine war strains ties

Illustrative: A Meta Portal Go is displayed during a preview of the Meta Store in Burlingame, California, May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Reporter's notebook

BlenderBot, Meta’s AI chatbot, really, really wants you to check out its synagogue

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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Illustrative: Angel Cespedes, 14, who is in need of a kidney transplant, lies in bed feeling unwell after dialysis treatment at his home in Valles del Tuy on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela, November 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Scientists alter kidney blood type, potentially increasing transplant availability

By Tobias Siegal

Israeli modeling agent Shai Avital (right) poses with models, during an event on a rooftop in Tel Aviv, on September 17, 2017. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)

Top Israeli modeling agent accused of sexual abuse arrested in Amsterdam

Bugs are seen inside the frame of a picture by the renowned German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in a video released by BBC Persia on August 14, 2022. (Screenshot)

Iran art museum calls in pest control after bugs seen crawling on world-famous work

By AP

Staff Sgt. Nathan Fitoussi in an undated photograph published by the military on August 16, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

‘Nation crying with you,’ Lapid tells parents of soldier slain by friendly fire

Illustrative: A police vehicle at a crime scene in Netanya, October 14, 2018. (Flash90)

80-year-old man suspected of abusing partner’s granddaughter, 10

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a fatal shooting in the Bedouin city of Rahat, July 21, 2022. (Israel Police)

10-year-old boy among 4 injured in separate shootings in northern Israel

Illustrative: Beilinson Hospital at the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva in 2007 (Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)

Police arrest man for threatening, assaulting Beilinson Hospital staff

The Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg arrives at court, August 18, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump Organization CFO Weisselberg takes deal, pleads guilty to tax evasion

By Michael R. Sisak

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, May 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG rejects Gantz’s bid to appoint new Army Radio head before elections

By Tobias Siegal

Petah Tikva mayor Rami Greenberg on December 5 2017. (Rami Greenberg/ Wikipedia CC-BY-4.0)

Petah Tikva mayor released to house arrest amid bribery suspicions

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